Acri, Andrea (ed). 2016. Esoteric Buddhism in Mediaeval Maritime Asia: Networks of Masters, Texts, Icons. Nalanda-Sriwijaya Series 27. Singapore: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. xii+468 pp. ISBN: 978-981-4695-09-1 (whole book, digital), ISBN 978-981-4695-08-4 (print). [PDF: Introduction, Bibliography, Index]
Official site: ISEAS. OCLC: 958714872. TOC: Andrea Acri at academia.edu. Review: newbooks.asia
Contents
Acknowledgements … ix
List of Abbreviations … xi
Conventions … xiii
1. Introduction: Esoteric Buddhist Networks along the Maritime Silk Routes, 7th–13th Century AD, by Andrea Acri … 1
PART I: MONKS, TEXTS, PATRONS
2. Coronation and Liberation According to a Javanese Monk in China: Bianhongs Manual on the abhiṣeka of a cakravartin, by Iain Sinclair … 29
3. Saṅ Hyaṅ Kamahāyānikan, Borobudur, and the Origins of Esoteric Buddhism in Indonesia, by Hudaya Kandahjaya … 67
4. Traces of Indonesian Influences in Tibet, by Jan A Schoterman … 113
5. The Politics of Esoteric Buddhism: Amoghavajra and the Tang State, by Geoffrey Goble … 123
6. (Spi)ritual Warfare in 13th-Century Asia? International Relations, the Balance of Powers, and the Tantric Buddhism of Kṛtanagara and Khubilai Khan, by David Bade … 141
PART II: ART, ARCHITECTURE, AND MATERIAL CULTURE
7. Images of Devotion and Power in South and Southeast Bengal, by Claudine Bautze-Picron … 163
8. Borobudurs Pāla Forebear? A Field Note from Kesariya, Bihar, India, by Swati Chemburkar … 191
9. Imagery, Ritual, and Ideology: Examining the Mahāvihāra at Ratnagiri, by Natasha Reichle … 211
10. Seeds of Vajrabodhi: Buddhist Ritual Bronzes from Java and Khorat, by Peter D Sharrock, Emma C Bunker … 237
11. Archaeological Evidence for Esoteric Buddhism in Sumatra, 7th to 13th Century, by John N Miksic … 253
12. The Tale of Sudhana and Manoharā on Candi Jago: An Interpretation of a Series of Narrative Bas-reliefs on a 13th-Century East Javanese Monument, by Kate O'Brien … 275
PART III: BAUDDHA-ŚAIVA DYNAMICS
13. Once More on the 'Ratu Boko Mantra': Magic, Realpolitik, and Bauddha-Śaiva Dynamics in Ancient Nusantara, by Andrea Acri … 323
14. Mid-9th-Century Adversity for Sinhalese Esoteric Buddhist Exemplars in Java: Lord Kumbhayoni and the 'Rag-wearer' Paṁsukūlika Monks of the Abhayagirivihāra, by Jeffrey R Sundberg … 349
15. A Śaiva Text in Chinese Garb? An Annotated Translation of the Suji liyan Moxishouluo tian shuo aweishe fa, by Rolf W Giebel … 381
APPENDICES
APPENDIX A: The Names of Nāgabuddhi and Vajrabuddhi, by Iain Sinclair, author … 389
APPENDIX B: Notes on the Alleged Reading vālaputra on the Pikatan Funeral Stele, by Jeffrey R Sundberg … 393
The Contributors … 395
Bibliography … 399
Index … 441